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in reply to Re: Re: Perl in the "Microsoft Research Center"
in thread Perl in the "Microsoft Research Center"

Remember, Activestate used to be Hip Communications. And MS gave Hip Communications a shedload of money to port and support perl on Win32, to make it easier for people to switch their applications from the Netscape web server to IIS.